From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: filesets Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193043630 27366 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2007 09:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 11:00:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ijt99-00041l-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:00:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijt91-00085z-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijt8v-00082u-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijt8s-00080O-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijt8s-00080E-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ijt8s-0005HN-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ijt8r-0008Ou-WF; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (bob@rattlesnake.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81438 Archived-At: I know that speaking of `the list of marked files' is longer than speaking of `filesets'. That is bad. However, the word `list' has specific meaning in Lisp. It is good to express it. At the user level, a fileset is a collection of files, collection in an abstract sense, not a Lisp object. To speak of a "list of files" would put in a false trail. I am not sure how bad this confusion would be in practice. Maybe it is acceptable. "Set of files" would be more like it; it's the same concept as "fileset", but by swapping the words around we would avoid the implication that it is the same as the "fileset" discussed in another section.